Picard is a community on the northwest side of

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. It is part of

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. The

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, part of

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, was located in Picard and once had over a thousand medical students arriving annually from the United States and Canada who studied there, but the campus was permanently relocated to

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at the beginning of the 2019 Spring semester due to extensive hurricane damage suffered at the Dominican campus. The school's presence was a major economic resource for the local people. There was a

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on the school's campus, one of three on the island. The

Picard River The Picard River is a river in Dominica. It rises on the northern slopes of Morne Diablotins, flowing northwest to reach the Caribbean Sea at Prince Rupert Bay on the country's northwestern coast, close to the town of Portsmouth Portsmouth ...

is a river in Dominica. It rises on the northern slopes of

Morne Diablotins Morne Diablotins is the highest mountain in Dominica, an island-nation in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles. It is the second highest mountain in the Lesser Antilles, after La Grande Soufrière in Guadeloupe. Morne Diablotins is located in the no ...

, flowing northwest to reach the Caribbean Sea at Prince Rupert Bay on the country's northwestern coast, close to the town of Portsmouth.

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* Populated places in Dominica Saint John Parish, Dominica {{Dominica-geo-stub